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Title: Locomotion and bone strength of the white rhinoceros Ceratotherium simum
Author(s): Alexander, R.McN.; Pond, C.M.
Year published: 1992
Journal: Journal of Zoology, London
Volume: 227
Pages: 63-69, fig. 1, tables 1-3
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Behaviour - Locomotion
White Rhino
Figure 1 shows an adult Ceratotherium galloping at 6.1 m/s. Other sequences (also of adults) show speeds up to 7.5 m/s. This is slightly above the maximum speed of 7.0 m/s recorded for butfalo (Syncerus cafferr) by Alexander, Langman & Jayes (1977), but well below the 11 m/s which they recorded...
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Behaviour - Locomotion
White Rhino
Locomotion and bone strength in Ceratotherium simum. The elephants, rhinoceroses and hippopotamus are the most massive of all living land animals. Owen-Smith (1988) gives mean masses for adult males of 5000 and 4000 kg for the elephants Loxodonta africana and Elephas maximum, respectively; 220...
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Ceratotherium simum - 2 year old female in zoo. We were unable to weigh the carcass on account of its size, but the zoo staff who had attended the animal estimated her mass as 700-800 kg. The following argument tends to confirm their estimate. The unskinned carcass was 2.76 m long from the upp...
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